Why do you listen to records?

Always. But in the past there was barrier and filters imposed by the social fabric institutions acting from a  self regulating  thermometer. the best description of this is in René Girard book about mimesis.

These institutions are made obsolete,they cannot work as in the past, even the old line separating private life and public life is abolished now.

Then we see chaos emerging around the egg of the new consciousness..

has the world always been this angry?

Here's an excellent idea for your acoustic/electric/mechanical experimentation extravaganza.

While you are DJ'ing (wacking away at your turntable with those straws), pull a couple of extra straws from your helmhlotzing speaker ports and stick it up you know where...it could convert yourself wholesomely into a helmholtz resonator, not just the speaker.

That would be some genius helmholtz level acoustic/mechanical/electrical concepts in implementation, i bet.....(acoustic acoustic)

@newton_john 

As I remember it now, what originally prompted me to write this post was that when I listen to records I tend to listen more for the sound than the music, and was wondering if others did the same thing.

@milehighguy ”has the world always been this angry?”

No. I don’t think so. There has been a trend over the last few decades of entitlement, anonymity (internet), and Political rhetoric that has stoked the internal bias of fear over contentment. The current era reminds me of Churchill’s first volume of World War 2: ‘The Gathering Storm’.

@parkergetdean 

Sorry, we were talking at cross purposes. However, I still disagree. 

Yes, we’ve had two new formats in the past forty years, CD and streaming. Maybe, some of us have the exactly same turntable they did forty years ago, but mine has got massively better than it was then. In general, they have come a long way.

There have been big technological improvements in bearings, motors, new materials for plinths, power supplies, isolation, MC cartridges, phono stages, optical cartridges, record cleaners, etc. Not to mention digital coming into the processing involved in making records and their replay. Vinyl has developed and evolved alongside the new formats.